Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival (Studies in Environmental Anthropology , Vol 3)

Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how indigenous peoples make claims that their own forms of resource management not only have relevance in an Arctic regional context, but provide models for the inclusion of indigenous values and environmental knowledge in the design, negotiation and implementation of global environmental policy. In recent years concern over global warming, atmospheric pollution, ozone depletion, overfishing and uncontrolled resource extraction has focused international attention on the Arctic as a critical zone for global environmental change. Nuttall explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, investigating their involvement in international environmental policy-making. As the Arctic region becomes drawn into broad global environmental problems, indigenous groups fight to maintain control over lands, resouces, traditions, and cultures. As the Arctic region becomes drawn into broad global environmental problems, indigenous groups fight to maintain control over lands, resources, traditions, and cultures